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We are doing launches of the CodePlex application every three weeks or so. Today's launch includes some improved RSS functionality, including a site-wide RSS feed which provides daily statistics and live updates on new projects added to the site. It also...

We have 110 user votes covered in this deployment, plus a whole bucket-full of tweaks, bug fixes, and little improvements. Here are a few of the changes: The default font for the site is now Segoe UI. I think it looks much more streamlined as a result...

As Jim has already reported , votes had a huge impact on the work we did in our recent February 20th deployment. We addressed 220 customer votes worth of feature and bug requests with this deployment. Even though the deployment was just a few days ago...

We've finished adding patch support for CodePlex Client, and have therefore made our first official release (June 2007). You can download it here . In addition to supporting patch, this release is the first to be offered as stand-alone single executables...

We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software on Friday, Feb 6. Work items in the issue tracker now have a custom field where you can add or edit whatever text you want, in case you need additional fields not already supported. You can search...

Update 24 Sept 2008: Slides are now posted. Sorry for the delay. Last week, I spoke at the Microsoft ReMix08 UK conference in Brighton, England on CodePlex and on Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. You can read more about the conference overall, the extensive...

On Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 2pm, CodePlex surpassed the 10,000 project mark just shortly after our 3 year anniversary. Congrats to SharpFitter , a Visual Studio 2008 C# Add-in that dynamically loads plug-ins, for being our 10,000th project. We hope to...

Just a few minutes ago, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. Work item #14459: Wiki hyperlinking from an image Thanks to a voting campaign that started on Twitter on April 9, this work item became our #1 most requested feature almost...

On Friday, we released the latest version of the CodePlex software featuring the Telerik RadEditor on the Project Discussion pages. The RadEditor features include: font choice, font size, font style, bullet points and numbering, indent, outdent, horizontal...

Yesterday, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. We’re excited to introduce our latest feature, the Documentation tab. CodePlex users now have a consistent place across projects to find documentation, while project owners are encouraged...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Windows Live™ ID Support The #2 requested feature for CodePlex has been to support logging in using your Windows Live™ ID account. We’re happy...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Upgraded to .NET 4 While normally we wouldn’t mention an infrastructure upgrade, we decided that with the recent launch of .NET 4, our more...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website last week. Profile Picture Thumbnails We have added a way to select a thumbnail from your profile picture, which will start appearing...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website today. Pull Request Changes In this release, we have begun to re-focus on Pull Requests to ensure a productive experience between the...

Here are the notes for this week’s release: Pull Requests We added diff previews to the pull request creation page so that you have more context in the pull request that you’re creating. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue that prevented users from downloading files...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. AppHarbor In CodePlex, we continue to look for ways to enhance our project hosting offering by partnering with other...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. Redesigned Home Page with Activity Stream In CodePlex we continuously look for ways to provide our users with the most...

The Visual Studio team just recently released the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 . Check out the announcement here . To help get customer feedback, they made the service available to all CodePlex TFS users here: https://codeplexodata...

Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Added the Action Bar to the project home and documentation tabs. CodePlex now 100% ASP.NET MVC (bye bye Web Forms). Updated publish project banner to improve...

Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Updated the Source browsing to fixed width and full browser height. The source browsing experience now defaults to the fixed width layout. But, if you really...

This past week the CodePlex team worked on several fixes to improve the stability of our TFS infrastructure, including applying TFS 2012 Update 1. We apologize for the recent downtime. We are not completely out of the woods, but we appreciate your patience...

Here are the notes for today’s release: Updated the GNU Lesser General Public License for new projects to match the latest license version Deployed several bug fixes around HTTPS support: Fixed an issue where the advanced view filters in the issue tracker...

Here are the notes for this week’s release: Pull Requests We’ve now added the ability to send pull requests to and from specific branches in your fork and the parent project. This is our first change in a series of improvements we want to make to our...

We pushed out a small release today to resolve the following issue: Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented certain users from downloading project files. Have ideas on how to improve CodePlex? Visit our ideas page ! Vote for your favorite ideas or submit...